Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-04-01

the best ever made by yacht on the At
Ianuc ocean. Fastnet light was sighted
at 80 IN the morning, but the wind had
dled ont and the run along the coast was
| slow. During the storm of the 2Sd the
cockpit was, on several occasions. filed
with water, and altogether il was
Perhous time for the yacht.
HEAyEN-KISSING ROOFS.
Some of New York's Big Buildings -Four
Structures That Contain People Enough for
Large Village.
N.Y. Cor. Boston Globe
The corner of Beekman ana Nassau
streets is the most remarkable street
| crossing in the world. At no other iunc.
tiOn OF city streets in Christenio or
! heathendom are there so maHv persons
! gathered together, SO many occupations
! Piled. No where else are four such great
! buildings TO be found together; no where
| else are so many business establishments
| perehed at such dizzy height; no where
else except IN the case of few notable
monuments has man piled such weight
on earth's crust.
| -Four of the biggest Office buildings in
| the world face one another here. The one
| on the northwest corner, the Potter build
the world. Opposite to it the Morse
building ranks only second. The Potter
building rises above the site of the old
World office, and the structures on the
southern corners are the great Kelly build
ing, or Temple court, as it is called, and
the Vanderbilt building, which is forty
feet shorter than the others, but is a pile
that would be monstrous in any other
neighborhood.
The Vanderbilt building is about I25
feet high. has eight stories, provides 81
offices and covers 120 feet by IS feet of
ground; 1t is plain, brown stone build
ing, constructed on the ample but not
ornate style of architecture best repre-
sented by the dry goods box 1t is
probably not worth above S250,OOO, and
Ii Is simply an old structure rebuilt 1t
Is owned by the Vanderbilts, who. their
grander neighbors say, are not rich
enough 10 build houses like theirs.
Temple court, or the Kelly building, has
walls that measure 100 feet on all sides:
and at least 160 feet from foundation to
cap-stone. The elevator shaft in it is $50
feet long. 1t is 10 stories high above
ground. lis first two stories are of gran
lte and the rest of pressed brick. carried
to towers at the corners, with mansard
oS-"S6Ii' MS DuIluluS must nave cost
S750eO0. The land it stands on sold for
$407 500. 1t is owned by Eugene Kelly,
tse famous Irish banker. The Potter
building, running through the whole
block, from Nassau street to Park row.
and facing the post Office and city hall
park, Is the talleSt
STRAIGHT WALLED BUILDING
in the world. 1t rises 1S6 feet above Its
foundations this divided
eleven stories above the street 1t cost
about $2,O0O,OOO, and with its ground
is worth about half million more. It's
first two stories of iron, and al owe
that it is made Of brick highly ornament
ed. 1t has small court or opening on
the Beekman street side, admitting light
and air to its inner rooms. 1t has
frontage of 100 feet and depth of 100
feet 1t is owned by Hon. O. B. Potter,
ex-congressman and many miIlionnaires.
inally the Morse bullding-next to
z otter's rises 165 feet in sheer facing of
pressed brick, Ornamented with black
brick. 1t could not be built fer $780,
600. 1t has ten stories above the side.
walk, and occupies a site 85x70 feet. 1t
is owned by the son and nephew of Pro
fessor Morse, the protector of the Allan
tic cable.
1t is an important neighborhood that
these giant cubes of masonry distin-
guish. Within block are the post
office, city hall, Bennett building, the
offices of the Sun, World, Times, Star,
Herald and Tribune and the main sta
tion of the Third Avenue railroad With
in the two blocks are the Evening Post
Astor House, the Chemical, Park, Nassau,
Broadway and Emigrant banks, the Sixth
Avenue Elevated road, st. Paul's Church,
the American News Company's head
quarters, the Stewart building, the Com
mercial Advertiser, Moquin's restaurant,
and hotels, eating houses, drug stores,
clothing stores, railroad offices and
sporting goods establishment, all of
which are known all over America; and
finally the Federal city and state courts.
Not SO much can be said for any other
buildings in America. But think what
they do for the neighborhood The Van
derbilt building contains 81 offices with
about 500 occupants; the Potter, 351, oc-
cupied by about 1900 persons; the Morse,
100 offices and $50 inhabitants, and
Temple Court, 215 rooms and 100 ten
ants. In the Potter building are the OBJ
server and Judge, periodicals of
NATIONAL REPUTATION;
across the street in the kello building an
ambitious magazine, the Manhattan, was
born and died.. in the Morse building
long fourished that pyrotechnic daily
paper called the Truth, which figured SO
famously in the Garfield campaign. Far
up on the top floor are other journalistic
institutions-the agency of S. S. Mcclure,
whose business extends all over the world
and of Crabayedof, the newspaper pic
ture maker, Russian with an Oxford
education, who entertains his friends with
steaming cups ofS3 a pound Caravan
tea.
Celebrated mining companies lawyers
whose incomes exceed the Presidents
and well-known professional men of
every calling. are here perched above the
trees.
Tne old Park hotel had besome the
lowest building in the neighborhood.
Where the Potter building now stands
was the old World Office, almost as plain
as a sugar house-a succession of four or
five wooden floors each half a block in
size. Across Beekman street was the old
Clinton Hall and the Nassau Bank build
ing where the Kelly building TEN pie court
now stands. On the fourth corner was
the
yASDERBILT Bull DING.
a story shorter and somewhat shallower
than now. The Me.srs. Morse conceived
the idea of putting up handsome fire.
proof building prInci Pally to attract law
yers and those doing business with the
courts. They prophesied that whoever
was the first TO build there would get the
cream of the trade. They also believed
that people would prefer an Office building
OWNED by an individual to any of those
already up which were in the possession
of souiless corporations. The Morses